Juan Diego Florez Quotes

I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.

Juan Diego Florez

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A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

Jennifer Granholm

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Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

Michael Apted

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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

John Updike

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If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

Travis Kalanick

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The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Tom Rachman

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No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Roger Daltrey

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I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.

Masi Oka

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My life is mine to remember.

Drake

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Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

Christopher Guest

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I do have a tendency to talk a lot at the poker table, which throws people off because they spend a lot of time trying to read me. But I talk a lot when I have a good hand and when I have a bad hand, too. Sometimes it annoys people so much they can't wait to get out of the tournament. And that can only be good for me.

Cheryl Hines

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I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

Wislawa Szymborska

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